Characters
This character is the narrator's husband
Who is John?
The real cause of our narrator's mental illnesses
What is postpartum depression/psychosis?
Where (geographically) "The Yellow Wallpaper" takes place
What are the New England Territories?
Item in our narrator's room that symbolizes lack of freedom
What is the barred window?
Explain the significance of this quote:
"You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?"
What is our narrator's lack of control over her own life and the dismissal her husband shows?
This character is the housemaid who takes care of the baby
Who is Mary?
Narrator's opinion on her prescribed "treatment"
What is disagreeance/rejection?
When (time period) "The Yellow Wallpaper" takes place
What are the 1800s?
Item in our narrator's room that symbolizes women trapped by the patriarchal society and the poor treatment of the mentally ill
What is the yellow wallpaper?
Identify the tone of the following quote:
"The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight."
What is disgust?
This character is the narrator's husband's sister
Who is Jennie?
Activity that our narrator is NOT allowed to do, but continues to do, throughout the narrative
What is writing?
Where (physical location) "The Yellow Wallpaper" takes place
What is a summer estate?
Place that symbolizes prosperous mental health
What is the garden?
Identify the significance of the following quote:
"I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper. It dwells in my mind so!"
What is our narrator's growing obsession with the yellow wallpaper and her degrading mental state?
This character is based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman herself
Who is the narrator?
Illness that our narrator's husband diagnoses her with
What is hysteria?
What our narrator likes the most about the estate upon her first day there
What is the garden?
Object that symbolizes dilapidated mental health/our narrator's current mental state
What is the greenhouse?
Identify the metaphor in the following quote:
"At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, and lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!
What is the symbolic significance of our narrator's current state (trapped by the confines of the patriarchal society and poor treatment of the mentally ill)?
The doctor who runs the asylum
Who is Weir Mitchell?
What our narrator believes will actually help her
Where our narrator wanted to stay in the house
What is the room downstairs?
Thing that symbolizes our narrator herself
What is the woman in the yellow wallpaper?
Identify what the following quote shows about the narrator's mental health towards the end of the story:
"I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"
What is the extreme decline of her mental health and belief that she was the woman in the yellow wallpaper?